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So it has been a long time coming but I finally have a 120p. The only problem is I'm stationed in GA, hence the "long distance," so my wife will be taking care of the tank back in CA, good thing it's low maintenance and non co2. My wife was nice enough to snag the tank, stand, and light off CL while I was deployed earlier this year so it was a great coming home present. Everything in this tank came from my old 90 gallon tank which was neglected and left to become a java fern farm. My goal with this one is to neglect it as well and let it become overgrown till it looks like a jungle. Shouldn't be too hard.
This was the last photo taken of the 90 gallon on 24 Nov 2011

The new setup:
Tank: ADA 120p (older so the glass is much thinner than the new ones)
Stand: Purchased from AFA and made to resemble the ADA stand in black
Light: Archaea 2x54 watt t5ho on 8 hr/day
Filter: Fluval FX5 with Koralia 4 for higher circulation in tank
Heater: Hydor ETH300
Substrate: Reused Flourish dark and red mix from old tank as base layer and topped with Flourish black with Pfertz root tabs
Fauna: puntius denisonii x9, paracheirodon axelrodi x6, trigonostigma heteromorpha x1, crossocheilis siamensis x2, Epalzeorhynchos kalopterus x1, Parotocinclus jumbo (pitbull pleco) x1
Flora: Microsorium pteropus 'Narrow', sagittaria subulata, vesicularia dubyana, cryptocoryne wendtii 'green gecko', cryptocoryne wendtii 'red', echinodorus tenellus


